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Get 30 minutes of Free WiFion Delta until Jan. 2 from eBay and GoGo.You can get 2,00 free miles from Jet Airways by signing up for an account here.Thanks GaryGary has a great post about getting huge bonuses by signing up for brokerage accounts. These have been around for a while so this is mainly just a reminder in case you had forgotten about them.

Starwood has a new promotion for Q1 (Jan. 9-Apr. 8) that offers 2x and 3x points for two- and three-night stays respectively.

You can still get $5 of TripAlertz credit for every person that you invite. You can join with my link or use one of the links in the comments.

30,000 Delta Miles No First Year Fee

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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card

The Sapphire Preferred offers 2x points on dining and travel, and no foreign transaction fees, making this the go-to card for travelers.

This card accumulates Ultimate Rewards points, which are very valuable for transfer to United and Hyatt. Overall, this card is a great choice for maximizing earnings on dining, travel, and every day spend.

Earn 40,000 bonus points when you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's $500 in travel when you redeem through Chase Ultimate RewardsSM

Earn 5,000 bonus points after you add the first authorized user and make a purchase in the first 3 months from account opening.

2X points on travel and dining at restaurants & 1 point per dollar spent on all other purchases

No foreign transaction fees, plus Chip and Signature enabled for international travel.

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Just curious for a spg mattress run, do you mean that if you stay 3 nights, you will make 3 separate reservations?

Howie

@Anonymous -

For an SPG mattress run I mean staying at a hotel for a night for the sole purpose of accumulating stay / night credit. Hopping between properties is just that; "hopping", where "mattress running" is staying purely for the credit.

I hop on business trips to accumulate more points / credit. Lucky for me however, I have not had to mattress run.

nickfromct

My resolution is to follow through on my plan to secure Silver Status with US air. EQM's:Trip to LAX-5kGrand Slam-7KSpend 25k on US air CC-10kTrip to STT-3K

oneeyejack

btw, i don't think the SPG Better by the Night link is working. it's bring you to an invalid link.

Anonymous

My resolution is to have a healthy baby in June, then book a trip to Japan for around March 2013 to see my cousin who will be living there! In the mean time, I hope to get 600,000 miles/points for my husband and I throughout the year.

Katie S (I couldn't get it to post as an OpenID)

Nguyen

My resolution is to fly in business class to Asia (Hong Kong) for the very first time. Thanks.

Bradley Baker

My resolution is to find opportunity to burn some miles. Plenty of earning, but if the miles/points just sit there, what's the point?

Anonymous

My resolution is business class to Europe next December. Need another 50,000 in American, so hoping for some new great cc offer this year. (Already got the last one.)

Anne

David Urmann

My resolution is to make it back to the USA at least 5 times this year from our office in India.

Vanessa

Wow – that's a lot of days away from home! I do not travel for business, but hope to accumulate enough points to get my husband and I to London come October for a friend's wedding. That's my travel resolution.

Sheila

My resolution is to accumulate enough points to pay for the airfare and hotel to Peru this summer. I have a majority of it but need more!

Les Silber

My resolution is to help others learn the secrets of beneficial financial travel and become accidental tourists.

Anonymous

My resolution is to get into this game and convince my wife that it will work, by getting enough miles for a business class trip to Paris.Anthony P.

clarelouise

The Starwood link isn't working yet. My resolution is to use my hotel points more efficiently.

Matt

My resolution is to use some of these miles that are burning a hole in my pocket. Haven't used any since April of this year and I'm ready!

A Sheehy

My resolution is to figure out how to use miles to book a trip in business class to and from a cruise that starts in Honolulu and ends in Sydney.

Dan M

My resolution is to fly Singapore Airlines!

Weston S

My resolution is find a way to get to Bora-Bora in 2012!

lisa

My resolution is to start churning!

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